Lorton Prison

With gas @ $4 a gallon, and an extremely thirsty, yet trusty SUV, I've drastically curtailed my wanderings to far flung locations to satisfy my obsession with the rotting and forgotten. So, it was a gorgeous August day, and the Voice said, "Well ya know, you have something quite interesting just down the road from you in Lorton - Lorton Prison." So I discovered what looked like a perfect back door into it, and amazingly just waltzed my azz on in.

The following images are from a number of locations that were the Lorton Complex, including an abandoned farm the inmates used to work. It was a very intense experience to photograph the locations due to the history of the prison, and the obvious residual energy that remains soaked into the walls. Most of the images are from the Power Plant, an UrbEx slice of heaven.

A personally disturbing fact to me is the opening this September of the Max Security buildings (third to last pic in the gallery) as an ARTISTs space. There are such, how do I put this, residual energy problems here that I wouldn't even CONSIDER having a workspace here. Thank GOD they didn't go with the original plan of making the same spaces into condos!
So, all that said, please enjoy what most probably are the last illicitly photographed images of what once was one of the most notorious prisons in the US.